- I love the Medical Detectives TV series. I find Forensic
science fascinating. However, in watching so many episodes, one sees really
really sick things, which reinforce in my mind the thought that the death
penalty is badly needed everywhere in the world.
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- Like the mother who lured her children downstairs to
sleep with her and then she stabbed them all to death with a kitchen knife,
or the woman who poisons other people to draw attention to her own husband's
death because then she can collect extra insurance money on him (because
the coroners missed the fact that he'd been poisoned), or the farmer who
plants a bomb in his car in the hope it will kill his wife... There are
so many plots, each unique, and some incredibly inhuman.
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- But last night, I saw an episode that really got to me
and which I just can't forget. It happened in Richmond, USA. A black man
broke into a white woman's apartment. As she lay in her bed asleep, he
stabbed her once through her heart. As she was dying slowly (it took her
8-10 minutes to die), he had sex with her and sodomised her... as she was
dying...
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- He never stole anything. He just did this because apparently
he'd made sexual advances on her and she had refused them. This was his
payback.
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- All he got was life with possibility of parole, and even
the prosecutors admit he will probably walk out on the street again. They
all said how much they believed he deserved to DIE, but despite their brilliant
forensic science they couldn't pull it off.
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- I must admit, the more I watch Medical Detectives, and
the more I see extremely horrible crimes, and how FEW of these murderers
get the death penalty in the USA (in South Africa even less get life -
we don't have death penalty), it outrages me. I am becoming a firm believer
that one needs a hangman in every country, and he must be hard at work
despatching these sick, sick, evil, disgusting 'people' from the face of
this earth.
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